How is Britains parliamentary government different from the us government?
Now, as an aside there is also one other major system of government: the premier-presidential system. This is the system used by France, Russia and many other countries and is third in popularity. Basically, the president is popularly elected and chooses the leader of the largest party in parliament to be his head of government (usually a prime minister, but Russia has a chairman of the government). The President sets the agenda and chooses the heads of government departments who are all from parliament, but the president remains directly in charge of all foreign affairs. In some cases, the president is forced to accept a government from a different party to his own (this is called ‘cohabitation’).
